From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6622 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2022 18:45:29 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jan 2022 18:45:29 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 15FEF9CFDE; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:45:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF679CFC8; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:45:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5C4339CFC8; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:45:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38F199C78F for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:45:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id D09AC35E1AB; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:45:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:45:14 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Dan Cross Message-ID: <20220111184514.GX3441@mcvoy.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC. X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > It seems like Unix is largely a child of the coasts. Notable work in Utah, > Colorado and Chicago aside, it seems the bulk of early Unix work happened > in either the greater New York metro area in northern New Jersey or the > greater Bay area around San Francisco. There is a reason that a ton of the kernel group at Sun were from Wisconsin, well, UW-Madison grads. UW did some porting work, added NFS to BSD, they were quite active in the 1980s.